La portière arrière de la mort
(Information de Marcel Yabili 11/05/03)

LePotentiel    a real disaster. Hundred sixty of the 200
passengers who traveled on board of an Iliouchine 76, have been inhaled
in the emptiness above the province of the Kasaï occidental.  The device,
a charter militaire, transportait of the Police's members of inter -
fast vention (PIR) and their families between Kinshasa and Lubumbashi.
He/it was to the half of his/her/its journey and crossed to a few 7000 feet
(2.200 meters) of altitude, when one of the doors of the cabin is himself
broken
KINSHASA (AFP) - The door of rear locker of the Iliouchine 76 occupies
the whole width of the device and serves rail while going down until the
soil in order to permit to embark or to unload some materials
heavy. The passengers are seated on benches in the sense of the
length of the plane.
"35 minutes after the takeoff, one heard a big noise in the plane, like a hiss, and then the door is
fallen The plane toppled the other on one hand then, and it is to this moment that people fell. "Only those that
had the reflex to hold the ropes that hang to the partitions of the plane were able to maintain itself/themselves inside."
KINSHASA, (AFP)     has the precedents main Russian plane accidents in Congo:
- January 8, 1996: RDCONGO - An Antonov-32 freighter overloaded misses his/her/its takeoff and collapse on a market
close to the downtown of Kinshasa. Officially, the accident makes 365 deaths, but according to Congolese sources, more,
of 800
people are shredded by the helixes or are crushed by the plane.

- April 19, 2000: RDCONGO - An Antonov-8, transporting some weapons for the rebels in the border between the RDC,
and Zambia, collapse in Pepa (south of the Katanga), making 26 deaths.

- August 12, 2000: RDCONGO - 26 people perish in the crash of an Antonov-26 in Kimpangua, close to Tshikapa,
(Western Kasaï).